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Mercury dynamics in contrasting watersheds of Glacier Bay National Park and P...
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (GBNPP), like many pristine high-latitude areas, is currently at risk from atmospherically derived contaminants such as Hg. Although the... -
Control of egg production in Alaskan kelps
The artificial culture of seaweeds has been of interest in Alaska since the 1980s. Originally the interest lay in the culture of the giant kelp (Macrocystis) as a substrate for... -
Salmon responses to climate change
A major unknown facing fisheries biologists and managers is how climate change will impact populations, species, and ecosystems. This research makes use of 40 years of data to... -
A toxicity study of creosote-treated wood to Pacific herring (Clupea pallassi...
Selection of the best method for preserving structural timbers in the marine environment requires an assessment of the relative toxicity of preservation methods. Creosote has... -
Impacts of sea otter recolonization on marine resources and coastal communiti...
The ongoing resource conflict between sea otters and commercial, sport and subsistence harvesters in southern Southeast Alaska has been underway for at least 15 years. This... -
The emergence of adaptive governance arrangements for tropical forest ecosystems
We seek to understand the conditions under which groups of people can successfully manage their own rural, developing forest resources using behavioral experiments, survey data,... -
Intrinsic potential habitat modeling for chinook salmon in the Copper River w...
Ecosystem management requires information on habitat condition across large scales; however, in Alaska comprehensive environmental surveys are often impractical and expensive to... -
Monitoring change: Mendenhall Glacier watershed-lake expansion, terminus retr...
Since 1998, the Mendenhall Glacier group in the ENVS Program at UAS begun by Dr. Roman Motyka UAS has annually measured glacier mass balance, terminus position and pro-glacial... -
Long-term natural resource monitoring programs for three national parks in So...
The Southeast Alaska Network of the National Park Service has numerous natural resource monitoring programs operating at this time. Programs span a broad range: from... -
Metabolic attenuation pf PBDEs in forage fish subject to local and remote con...
This project characterizes the capacity of hepatic microsomes derived from southeastern Alaska forage fish to remove bromine from polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs),...
